ABSTRACT
This chapter examines children’s ability to detect the formal structure of a set of words, that is, morphology. Traditionally, the analysis of word structure is divided into the two areas of inflection and derivation, the latter being the part of morphology that is concerned with the creation of “new words.” In the following, I report on an experiment that was designed to capture children’s notions of the rules that are involved in the formal interpretation of novel compounds in Swedish.
